Krishen Khanna B.1925 Lyallpur, Punjab
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Krishen Khanna b.1925 Lyallpur, Punjab Education Self taught artist 1940 Imperial Service College, Windsor, England Punjab University, Lahore Exhibitions Selected Solo Exhibitions 2016 'Krishen Khanna: Drawings & Paintings', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2015 'When the band begins to play...', Grosvenor Gallery, London 2013 'A Celebration of Lines', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 2010 'Krishen Khanna: A Retrospective', presented by Saffronart, Mumbai at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2008 'The Savage Heart', Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai 2005 Saffronart and Berkeley Square Gallery, London 2004 'An Airing' Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai 2001 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi 2001 Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, New York 1995 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 1994 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1991 Gallery Espace, New Delhi 1989 Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi. 1986 Exhibition of drawings and paintings at Sarla Art Centre, Chennai 1983 Exhibition of drawings, Garhi Studio, New Delhi 1980 Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1979 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi 1975 Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi 1974 Black Partridge, New Delhi 1973 Pundole Gallery, Mumbai 1969 Photographs, Kunika-Chemould, New Delhi 1969 Experimental Photographs, Pundole Gallery, Mumbai 1966 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi 1965 Egan Gallery, New York 1964 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi 1964 Watkins Art Gallery, American University, Washington D.C. 1962 Kunika Art Centre 1962 Leicester Galleries, London 1961 Ashoka Gallery, Kolkata 1961 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1960 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi 1960 Leicester Galleries, London 1959 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 1958 Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 1957 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi 1955 USIS, Chennai Selected Group Exhibitions 2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2013 'Edge of Reason- and beyond, into pure creativity', presented by Indian Art Circle at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2013 'The Discerning Eye: Modern Masters', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2012 'Talking Heads', Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi 2011 'The Art of Drawing', The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai 2011 'Masterclass', Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi 2010-11 'A Collection', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 2010 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai 2010 '10 x 10', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi 2010 'Black is Beautiful', India Fine Art, Mumbai 2010 'Essential, Eclectic,...Ephemeral', The Harrington Mansions, Kolkata 2009 'Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2009 'Master Class', The Arts Trust, Mumbai 2009 'Sacred and Secular', India Fine Art, Mumbai 2009 'Kalpana: Figurative Art in India', presented by The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) at Aicon Gallery, London; The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) 2008 'Faces', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai 2008 'Baisakh 08', Polka Art Gallery, New Delhi 2004 ‘Concept and Form’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 2003 Exhibition of drawings, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai 2003 Transition at UBS in London 2003 'Of Memories, Dreams, Reverses', at Anant, New Delhi 2001 'Living Legends of Indian Contemporary Art', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai 2001 'In Conversations', Gallery Espace, New Delhi 2001 Indian Art Circle, Habitat Centre, New Delhi 2001 Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, New York 1999 'Mahabharat', Gallery 7, Mumbai 1998 'The Probing Eye', an exhibition of Photographs, Surendra Paul Art Gallery, New Delhi 1998 'Drawings', Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai 1997 'Tryst with Destiny', Art from Modern India 1947-1997, Singapore Art Museum, organized by Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata 1997 'Six Modern Masters', Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 1996 Modern and Contemporary Indian Paintings, Sothebys Auction, London 1996 'A Tree in my Life', Village Gallery, New Delhi 1996 'The Moderns', Inaugural Exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai 1996 'The Mahabharata, The Card Player and The Scribe’, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi 1995 'Indian Contemporary Paintings', Christie's Auction, London 1995 'Bombay', presented by RPG Enterprises 1995 'River of Art', Inaugural Exhibition, Art Today 1994 'Indian Drawing Today', All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), organized by Gallery Espace, New Delhi 1994 'The Solids', second Indian Drawing Biennale, exhibited as a special invitee 1993 'Reflections and Images', Vadhera and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1992 'Masters of Indian Art', Hotel Intercontinental, Mumbai 1991 'Remembering Kali Pundole', Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai 1991 Birla Academy of Art, Anniversary Exhibition , Kolkata 1991 'Addressing Gandhi', traveling exhibition by Sahmat 1989 'Timeless Art', Exhibition and Auction 1989 Sothebys in Mumbai 1989 'Artist's Alert', exhibition and auction by Sahmat, New Delhi 1984 Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 7, Mumbai 1982 'Modern Indian Painters' Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D. C. 1982 'Contemporary Indian Art', Burlington House, London 1982 'Myth and Reality', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK 1981 Inaugural Exhibition, Roopankar Museum, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal 1981 'Indian Painting Today', Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1979 'Modern Asian Art', Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan 1976 'Pictorial Space', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1976 'Indian Painting 1977', Chandigarh, organized by Black Partridge Gallery 1972 'Art Now', Kunika Chemould, New Delhi 1972 'One World through Art', Ben and Abbey Grey Foundation, St. Paul, MN, USA 1971 'Contemporary Indian Art', Renwick Gallery 1971 Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. 1970 'Art Now', Kunika Chemould, New Delhi 1969 'Contemporary Art, Dialogue between East and West', Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 1969 'Indian Painters 69', Max Mueller Bhavan & Birla Academy, Kolkata 1968 New Art Centre, London 1966 Lincoln Centre, New York 1965 'Ten Contemporary Artists from India' University of South Florida, Tampa; Jackson Art Museum, Jacksonville; Delgado Art Museum, New Orleans; Hunter Gallery, Chattanooga; Colorado Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Long Beach; Art Institute, San Francisco; East Wing Center, Honolulu 1965 'Ten Contemporary Painters from India' MIT, Cambridge; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton. 1964 'Six Artists in Black and White', Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi 1963 'Contemporary Painters from India', Gallery 63, New York 1963 'Eight Contemporary Artists from India', Lever House, New York 1959 'Artists of Fame and of Promise', Leicester Galleries, London 1959 'Trends in Contemporary Painting from India', Graham Gallery, New York 1959 'Modern Indian Art', Cairo 1959 'Contemporary Art from India', Essen, Dortmund, Zurich 1959 Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 59, Mumbai 1956 'Eight Painters', Indian and Eastern Newspaper Society Building, New Delhi 1952-53 Progressive Artists at Madras College of Art, Chennai 1949 Progressive Artist Group, Chetna Restaurant, Mumbai Joint Exhibitions 1985 Ram Kumar and Krishen Khanna , Gallery 7, Mumbai 1954 With M F Husain at All India Fine Arts and Crafts society (AIFACS), New Delhi Participations 2015 'Abby Grey and Indian Modernism: Selections from the NYU Art Collection', Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York 2014 'Ode to Monumental: Celebration, Visuality, Ideology', presented by Saffronart at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 2012 'Synergy 2012', 12th Anniversary Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai 2012 'Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi 2011 'Ethos V: Indian Art Through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore 2011 ‘Manifestations V', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi 2011 'Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose 2011 'Time Unfolded', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi 2011 'Celebration 2011', Annual Exhibition, Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi 2010 'Art Celebrates 2010: Sports and the City', represented by Art Alive Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi to coincide with the hosting of the Commonwealth Games 2010 'Master’s Corner', organized by Indian Contemporary Art Journal at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; India International Art Fair, New Delhi 2010 'Contemporary Printmaking In India', presented by Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai 2010 'Evolve: 10th Anniversary Show', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai 2010 Annual Exhibition, Chawla Art Gallery, New Delhi 2008-09 'Paz Mandala', Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2008 'Harvest 2008', organized by Arushi Arts at The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi 1991 The Fifth Biennale, Havana Cuba 1988 First International Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan 1988 Festival of India, Japan 1987 Festival of India, USSR 1987 'Coups de Coeur', Geneva 1986 Baghdad International Festival of Art 1982 International Triennale, New Delhi 1976 25th Pugwash Conference, Chennai 1975 3rd Triennale of Contemporary World Art, New Delhi 1970 Expo '70, Indian Pavilion, Osaka, Japan 1968 International Triennale, New Delhi 1965 Annual Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi , New Delhi 1962 National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1962 Venice Biennale, Indian Participation 1961 Tokyo Biennale 1960 Sao Paulo Biennale 1957 Tokyo Biennale Honours and Awards 2011 Padma Bhushan, Government of India 2004 Lalit Kala Ratna from The President of India 1997 Kala Ratna, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society(AIFACS), New Delhi 1990 Padma Shri, Government of India 1989 Gold Medal, First International Biennale of Art, Lahore, Pakistan 1989 Sahitya Kala Parishad Award, New Delhi 1986 Presidents Award at Baghdad International Festival of Art 1965 Award, Lalit Kala Akademi Annual Exhibition, New Delhi 1965 Fellowship of the Council for Economic and Cultural Affairs, New York 1964 Artist–in-Residence, American University, Washington DC. 1962-63 Fellowship Rockefeller Council, New York 1962 Travel Fellowship by Council for Economic and Cultural Affairs, New York 1955 Commendation, Bombay Art Society Award, Mumbai 1955 Saurashtra Government Award for Oil Painting .